Spiritual Growth vs Sexual Desire (Tom Campbell & Eckhart Tolle)

Most of us have at one point experienced the strange, the spiritual or paranormal. This is doubly true of when we delve into the more mystical nature of what it means to be human. We take up various practices designed to enhance consciousness and deepen our understanding. During such a time of personal development, I had a psycho-emotional encounter similar to what some describe as a 'kundalini awakening'. This is not unusual - thousands of reports of such experiences are reported. The strange thing to me was how this event influenced my physiology. As a feeling of deep, profound peace settled over my being, I noticed that my libido - a force that had driven me my entire adult life, became greatly diminished. To use a metaphor, it felt like my physiology was running on another fuel. I drifted through life feeling lighter than air and untroubled by the events around me. At some point I reintegrated with this energy and found my libido returning. However, this got me thinking that perhaps there was a converse relationship between Sex and Spirituality. In ancient Traditional Chinese Medicine it is taught that one should strive to 'Preserve The Reproductive Essence'. What do the Monks who take up the ascetic life, or the Taoists who eschew orgasm in favor of a deeper energy know that the rest of us don't? I became interested in this potential dichotomy...

I was very lucky to have had the chance to meet Physicist Tom Campbell - who gave brilliant insight into my perceptions on this subject - in relation to his Big Theory of Everything, which can be found in his Trilogy of books: My Big Toe.

Eckhart Tolle has also been a very influential figure to me these last few years, and it was interesting to see how he addressed this issue - with his inimitable style of humor and insight!

Thanks to Tom and Eckhart for their contributions to the world of health and consciousness!

#tomcampbell #eckharttolle

[stocktonstorm]

I wish Tom Campbell would have mentioned the hormone change in the male and female avatar bodies that naturally decrease testosterone as we age. This lessons the pull of sexual desire in most avatar bodies, thereby making it more likely to evolve in how we grow Consciously.

[amyasstory]

Mark 12v25 scripture
"When God raises the dead in the resurrection they will not marry but will be like the angels in

The human pleasure in sexuality is chemically induced through human biology from within oneself.
The growth in human higher consciousness is an exhilaration of freedom from limitations and awareness of expansiveness of creation.
A priceless treasure.❤

[marti]

When you become spiritual, you become more loving. Sex, if you allow it, is then better with someone you become romantically involved with. It can enhance your spiritual experience as well. There are even examples in religious ideologies that speak about this. Tantra is one.

My sex life changed as I became more spiritual. It much improved.

Sometimes it is hard to separate your sex drive, aging, and spirituality. Aging alone certainly has an affect on diminishing our sex drive. People are a bit different when it comes to that.

I have heard Eckhart is asexual. There is nothing wrong with that form of sexuality. There are plenty of people like that and it has nothing to do with spirit, at least as much as it seems. Eckhart might not be the right person to ask about sexual desire.

[Hugo-olsc]

Very well conveyed,
When one transcends the need for just pleasure, the need of understanding takes over and it has to be with the right person that is compatible to one self
and not just for satisfaction.
If one is pursuing a spiritual path that person would have to be very special!!!
🕊️👁️🕊️💕🫂💞💗🌹💗

[marktombazian]

It's simply shifting the physical to a higher vibration level and use it for engaging in the world and the spiritual dynamic of God...to enlightenment and liberation...

[ActiveAdultsFitness]

I think Eckhart suggestion is more helpful. A trigger causes sexual desire to rise, being couscous of the feeling without going down the fantasy route. Sit with it, to me its painful. But the pain is starting to lessen. My previous strategy would cause me more suffering and unease.

[DaughterofaKing]

I’m learning how to transmute it into something I want to create or get done…

[gavinleyfield]

Sex as a physical being is the manifestation, on this plane, of a desire for unity and the expression of creative power. Both of these are very high ideals spiritually speaking. I think it matters more, what you bring to the practice. Do you bring love and the desire to make your partner feel good? or do you take what you want from the experience for yourself? I think that desire / sex can be one of the most profound connections to source and used in the right way, can be incredibly beneficial.

[AlphaGeminorum]

It's impossible for sexual desire to reduce spiritual growth. One of my guides is the embodiment of the 2nd and 7th chakras, a perfect combination of both energies, the archetype of their melding. He's male and his name is Athan. He's been with me for more than 5 decades now and has guided me to not only sexual fulfillment but insane rapid spiritual growth.

[unspokenconscience]

Point being sex and lust is very strong emotion. You just can't let it drive you. You know it's amazing but you have to forget about it and not care with control to stil experience all it has without over doing and no control. It's discipline to the highest degree. But you have to be willing to let go at all times. To remain aware and able to push on.

[sparkmama]

I became celibate after my spiritual awakening. I had unfulfilling sex until my Kundalini Rose. I finally had orgasms. But I was wounded. Instead of speaking pleasure, I seek clarity

[mpress]

The spiritual side of sexuality can begin with an understanding of the cyclical nature of reality (God).

Represented by the serpent in many creation myths, the living cycle has a trinity of a beginning (head), a middle and end (tail). As above so below, the sexes were created in the image of God's cyclical nature where Mother is the head and opening to all beginnings and Father holds the tail to all endings (through which the sowing of seeds allow for the next great matriarchal rebirth).The joining of the two (symbolized by the Ouroborus or the marriage ring) is the sacred union needed in assuring the creation and continuation of new life cycles. To speak of the present day God as "Our Father" is simply an admission to our collective positioning within the bigger cycle.

As all mothers have direct experience with the creator quality of birthing, so is the direct experience of rebirthing the divinity within (baptism) belong to that which is spiritually matriarchal. (John 3, verse 3-8).

Sekhmet statues (ancient Egyptian) carry most of their weight in symbolic memory of what was a mother culture dedicated to the direct experience of baptism. As the leg shaped hairlocks extend from maternal breasts to the womb of rebirth, the lioness's head proportions are such that they highlight the bust of a second animal figure. The Lioness's ears as eyes and eyes as nose (nostrils) brings to life the figure of a reptile. 'Neath the halo headress of the solar egg, the lioness's egg fertilization process being internal (Set) and the reptile's egg fertilization process being external (Setting), such being key components to the safety of entering the trans-egoic or "born again" state. The life threatening fear associated with the predatory nature of a lion and/or crocodile encounter are reflective of the intense ego death experiences associated with the transpersonal awakening process.

In spiritually matriarchal times, illumination could be seen as wearing the false beard (ancient Egyptian funerary "ego" death mask) as the high state of cyclical self knowing; high awareness of both our upper matriarchal half and our lower (later) patriarchal half (compared with a mini lower body replica, an "as above so below" tail end beard extension); in full recognition of her civilizational Underworld; her inevitable cyclical destiny. The male pharaoh wears his beard tapered in reverse, indicating a pointing upwards towards the patriarchal head, divine representative of God's tail end cycle.

Mary's anointing and wiping of Jesus's feet with her hair can then be seen as "Head to tail" (toe) imagery as she descends her matriarchal head to his patriarchal feet, thus reenacting the high understanding of the divine cyclical process. (John 12, verse 3)

To carry the Ankh (now the female symbol ♀️) was perhaps to symbolically carry that upper and lower understanding. As the upper matriarchal womb symbolised the fertile birthing of civilization, below, the now Christian cross is carried to place emphasis on the lower (later) "End Times" Father principle of the great cycle.

Lord Ganesha, the elephant headed Hindu diety, displays a cyclical head to trunk symbolism and points to the Mother head of his matriarchal elephant society. Ganesha (like the elephant) wears God's cyclical nature on his face.


"See all women as mothers, serve them as your mother. when you see the entire world as the mother, the ego falls away. See everything as Mother and you will know God." - Neem Karoli Baba

"My son, keep thy father's commandment and forsake not the law of thy mother" - Proverbs 6 : 20

[tharkisquad]

I am 21 and with practice i am conscious and Being present in the moment. Will it cause to reduce my sexual desire. But I don't want to reduce the desire. Plzzz help me 🙏😥. Thank you

[Lodewijk]

Yes a beautifull video. But does it answer your question?
They are talking about spirituality and sexual energie. But your question actually is, spirituality and the absence of sexuality. I understand what you mean. I experience the exact same thing. But i can also not find any explination on that experience. 😊

[rezankhudeda]

Does any one else suspect Eckard to be a alien.

[bestofeverything]

This has totally failed to answer my questions
The questions
1 As a married man do i have to fully give up on sex with my wife because that means total separation or not
2 If not giving up how then am i supposed to involve in it